Artemis 2 Launch🌛

[citruscurtis]

Folks who visit Disneyland can handle this.... are their fireworks tonight... yes they are scheduled...sure looks and feels windy... yes fireworks are scheduled tonight....5 minutes before the show.... May we have your attention....

 

[citruscurtis]

Well... here in Yuma.. animal cruelty was more important headline to start the day

 

[citruscurtis]

Still no footage... HOWEVER... the parachutes to land back on earth..

Where tested here in Yuma county 2011-2018....under burro supervision..

Huh.... I don't think the local station has footage... which explains the history happening on jeopardy

 

[citruscurtis]

Okay....
Now I get it...

Yuma doesn't want to upset seniors.... President is giving a speech....way to much time devoted to government

 

[citruscurtis]

Wow..

The technicians had to be in isolation also!!!

 

[Allison Joy]

That launch was stunning and beautiful! I can now say I have watched a crewed flight to the moon! Apollo 13 is my favorite movie, and I keep thinking, "They're using free-return trajectory! But on purpose!"

 

[HopperFan]

DH went to beach to watch. Never seen so many people out there on beach for a launch, and said our boardwalks were full, so full one guy said "I wonder how much weight the boardwalk is rated for."

Big difference when there are people on board and so much bigger than the satellite ones that go up every other day. He said they got a pretty good view of it!

 

[Turn the Page]

That launch was stunning and beautiful! I can now say I have watched a crewed flight to the moon! Apollo 13 is my favorite movie, and I keep thinking, "They're using free-return trajectory! But on purpose!"

I can't say Apollo 13 is my favorite movie but I have sen it many times. I kept thinking "they are using the moons gravity to slingshot them toward earth!!!! It's the option with the fewest variables!"

 

[longboard55]

Seems like a waste, but the money the USA spent on space and defense in the 60s and 70s is basically why we had the tech boom starting in the 80s. A lot of the cool stuff was invented by way of government contracts, it was just not monetized. My FIL worked at TRW assigned to the project that takes those photos from space. No google did not invent that.

 

[AlohaNow]

I can't say Apollo 13 is my favorite movie but I have seen it many times. I kept thinking "they are using the moons gravity to slingshot them toward earth!!!! It's the option with the fewest variables!"

I laughed out loud at the last sentence. Yes, I've probably seen Apollo 13 too many times! It was a huge, fat thrill last year to finally visit the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas and stand in front of the actual command module Odyssey. Not a mock-up from the movie, the ACTUAL one that safely returned the astronauts to Earth.

Who is on board for TLI today? The trans-lunar injection burn is currently scheduled for 7:49 EDT and should last about six minutes. This is the big boost that gets them out of Earth orbit and puts them on the path to the moon. Just like in the movie!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas and stand in front of the actual command module Odyssey.

haha I was just telling other DISer friends about this. Grew up going there for field trips and have been there several times as an adult. Has the most artifacts of the U.S. and Russia outside of D.C. too. Fun outing for sure

 

[Dan Murphy]

Who is on board for TLI today? The trans-lunar injection burn is currently scheduled for 7:49 EDT and should last about six minutes. This is the big boost that gets them out of Earth orbit and puts them on the path to the moon. Just like in the movie!

Successfully just completed. On the way to the moon now.

 

[goofyernmost]

I remember listening to the First U.S. launched manned ship. Alan Shephard. Up in the air and back down again. That was in 1961 and I was in Grade 8. I don't know if it was televised, probably was, but the school I went to didn't have a TV in class. After that coupled with the previous Russian manned ship made the entire school system decide that in spite of math being hard We were going to learn it.

This stuff was going to open up technology and we needed to be prepared. No one was happier than I was when the hand held calculator was invented, an early technology, brought on by the space program. I was this close to having to learn to use a slide rule. Technology saved me! If it hadn't been for the 9 volt, transistor radio, we wouldn't have known anything that was going on.

 

[citruscurtis]

I will take this over the big marble... sure once in a lifetime. .. but how long did you sit at the rim of the Grand canyon

 

[hardcorestitch]

Let’s just say my “blackout” from the outside world was waaaay longer than the mere 40 minutes you folks on that ship had…

Come 2027… you won’t see a blackout… thanks to those lunar relay stations…

 

[goofyernmost]

I will take this over the big marble... sure once in a lifetime. .. but how long did you sit at the rim of the Grand canyon

The Big Blue Marble was a great 3D movie. I saw it at the Kennedy Space Ctr. in the early 2000's

 

[robinb]

 

[citruscurtis]

Tomorrow Yuma shines!!!!!... wish I had a meme of two burros...see honey... I told you I could take you to the moon

 

[citruscurtis]

Yuma proving ground

 

[hardcorestitch]

April 10. 8:07 WDW/5:07 Disneyland. San Diego. It all culminates.